When I was younger I loved to play sieges. But in my teenage years I put aside the mini's and threw away the toycastles
. So a year ago I restarted the hobby en sporadicly I play a battle with a friend who doesn't own any mini's. But I told him of the sieges and he proposed to build me a castle.The result is really cool. So we played a siege, for the first in a long time.
He would attack, using a 1800pts mordor force and I would defend with a 1200pts gondor force.
Before the start we knew only eachothers themes but not the exact force. I guessed, knowing my friend, he would use a massive amount of mini's and not really focussing on the big hitters. So I used cheap heroes and many gondorians. 72gondorians, 10 citadelguards, a bolt threwer, some rangers and foutainguards where led by Faramir, Denethor, Cirion, Madril, Damrod, Beregond and two captains.
And the attacking force consisted out of more then 150mini's. Orcs, haradrim and some easterlings led by Khamul on fellbeast, the shadowlord, Shagrad the warleader, gorbag, grisnak, orc shaman and a bunch of different captains, 4 haradrim, 1 blackguard,...
And so it began
In the first picture the placing of the mini's:
His strategy was focusing on one flank, hitting it really hard and weakening the second flack with bowfire (around 50 archers
)
. And the castle will be bigger once finished, some wallsections, them we certainly need a bigger board.
I played a siege once and after 6/7 turns the door was still standing so my opponent fired a bunch of crossbow bolts at it...promptly fell down and the hoardes of evil streamed in.
